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    Grief is fundamentally an emotional response to loss‚ the expression of which can include sadness‚ sorrow‚ fatigue‚ depression‚ relief‚ shock‚ anger‚ guilt‚ and anxiety. There are five stages of grieving for someone‚ first is shock and denial‚ denying that it happened or will happen. Anger‚ expressing big emotions towards someone or something accusing them of what happened is the second one. Thirdly‚ is bargaining‚ it often takes place before the loss. Attempting to make deals with the spouse who is

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    OPENING STEATEMENT I read the book the lovely bones. turns the idea of death and murder upside down. Lovely bones is a serious and compelling read that touches the heart. What touches us is the way the author keeps us fascinated with the murder‚ the family‚ and the life of a 14 year old girl‚ Suzie salmon‚ after her death. NARRATOR The book is written in the perspective of Suzie herself as she watches her family from her heaven. Even years after her murder‚ Suzie watches these people‚ wishing

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    After a loss in a family‚ it’s hard for the loved ones to cope. It seems surreal to them that someone so close to them was gone‚ never to be seen again. In “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold‚ the main character‚ Susie Salmon is raped then murdered. Each of her family members is traumatized by her horrific death and goes through stages of recovery in their own way. Susie‚ who has gone to “her heaven”‚ is coping with her own death as well. The poem‚ “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep” by Mary Frye

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    In Zootopia‚ the authors use the loss of innocence to reveal how we as humans tend to look at a person and judge them by their looks‚ not by their heart. This means that humans tend to judge a “book by its cover”rather than actually finding out who they are. You will never know if they are nice and caring or mean and sad. In the beginning of Zootopia‚ Judy was in a play that was talking about how Zootopia is a place where every animal comes together. In the play‚ it states that “every young mammal

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    The book The Lovely Bones is about a young girl named Susie Salmon that was murdered at the age of fourteen. Susie is the narrator of the story and she tells her story and watches her family and friends try and catch the killer. But she is having a hard time getting her family’s attention while she is in heaven. She starts to get bored in heaven and depressed and she starts to watch her family fall apart because of her death. The book talks about more of her heaven and how she is not enjoying her

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    Loss of Innocence in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Innocence‚ throughout time it is lost‚ varying from who and how much. Throughout the novel Frankenstein there is a central theme of loss of innocence‚ cleverly instilled by the author‚ Mary Shelley. This theme is evident in Frankenstein’s monster‚ Victor Frankenstein himself‚ and three other minor characters that lose their innocence consequently from the two major characters loss. Frankenstein’s monster is destined to lose all innocence as

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    follows the story of Satrapi’s younger self growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Tehran‚ Iran. Starting too early in life‚ Marjane was forced to mature much too quickly. Not only that‚ even before her teenage years‚ she lost her childhood innocence as she watched the war around her. Satrapi portrays her younger self as brave‚ smart‚ and most importantly‚ mature. In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ the theme of political hardship causing children to mature too quickly is proven by the settings

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    Losing bone density and muscle strength is a natural part of aging. However‚ certain medical conditions can make these processes even worse‚ putting sufferers at even higher risk of bone fractures and other injuries. Osteoporosis is one of these common conditions. OsteoStrong of St. Louis in Creve Coeur‚ Missouri can help people dealing with osteoporosis reverse bone loss and increase strength gain in order to live a healthier‚ happier life. Osteoporosis & Strength Gain 101 1. What Is Osteoporosis

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    Loss of Innocence As we grow as a person to a part of society we learn about many different things‚ we learn how to cope with different situations in order to form into different individuals. We start seeing things from a different perspective and start forming our own opinions of people‚ situations and the world in general. As many would think that this is the process of growth; it is also a loss of innocence. It is an aspect of coming of age or an experience in a child or person’s life that makes

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    Coming of age can be a difficult process not only due to an acceptance of new experiences‚ but also moving forward from one’s past experiences. This is certainly the case in the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The main character‚ Susie‚ comes of age after she accepts her position in heaven and stops trying to live through her loved ones on Earth. Susie seems to be able to accept her death to some extent‚ but refuses to monitor her loved ones on Earth. At first she finds interest in her

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